magine that you are interested in conducting a general survey to be administered within Portland-Vancouver high schools. Which is the bestway below to reduce or avoid bias in the selection of the schools you target with your survey?     divide a map of the Portland-Vancouver area into equal-sized squares and then randomly choose from among these geographical squares     consult higher-education administrators regarding which schools are preferable to target     choose schools from an alphabetical list of them     randomly select from a list of all high schools in the Portland-Vancouver area

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  1. Imagine that you are interested in conducting a general survey to be administered within Portland-Vancouver high schools. Which is the bestway below to reduce or avoid bias in the selection of the schools you target with your survey?
   

divide a map of the Portland-Vancouver area into equal-sized squares and then randomly choose from among these geographical squares

   

consult higher-education administrators regarding which schools are preferable to target

   

choose schools from an alphabetical list of them

   

randomly select from a list of all high schools in the Portland-Vancouver area

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